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The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes. While there is a particular history of such an approach in architecture, its relative newness requires the continued progression of novel modes of design thinking for the architect of the 21st century. This AD Reader establishes a foundation for such thinking.  It includes multifaceted reflections and speculations on the profound influence of computational paradigms on architecture. It presents relevant principles from the domains of mathematics and computer science, developmental and evolutionary biology, system science and philosophy, establishing a discourse for computational design thinking in architecture. Rather than a merely technical approach, the book will discuss essential intellectual concepts that are fundamental not only for a discourse on computational design but also for its practice.

This anthology provides a unique collection of seminal texts by authors, who have either provided a significant starting point through which a computational approach to design has been pursued or have played a considerable role in shaping the field. An important aspect of this book is the manner in which adjacent fields and historical texts are connected. Both the source of original inspiration and scientific thought are presented alongside contemporary writings on the continually evolving computational design discourse. Emerging from the field of science, principally the subjects of morphogenesis, evolution and mathematics, selected texts provide a historical basis for a reconfigured mindset of processes that generate, arrange and describe form. Juxtaposed against more contemporary statements regarding the influence of computation on design thinking, the book offers advancements of fundamental texts to the particular purpose of establishing novel thought processes for architecture, theoretically and practically.

• The first reader to provide an effective framework for computational thinking in design.

• Includes classic texts by Johan W. von Goethe, D’Arcy Thompson, Ernst Mayr, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Gordan Pask, Christopher Alexander, John H. Holland, Nicholas Negroponte, William Mitchell, Peter J. Bentley & David W. Corne, Sanford Kwinter, John Frazer, Kostis Terzidis, Michael Weinstock and Achim Menges

• Features new writing by: Mark Burry, Jane Burry, Manuel DeLanda and Peter Trummer.

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Edited by Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist

The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes. While there is a particular history of such an approach in architecture, its relative newness requires the continued progression of novel modes of design thinking for the architect of the 21st century. This AD Reader establishes a foundation for such thinking.  It includes multifaceted reflections and speculations on the profound influence of computational paradigms on architecture. It presents relevant principles from the domains of mathematics and computer science, developmental and evolutionary biology, system science and philosophy, establishing a discourse for computational design thinking in architecture. Rather than a merely technical approach, the book will discuss essential intellectual concepts that are fundamental not only for a discourse on computational design but also for its practice.

This anthology provides a unique collection of seminal texts by authors, who have either provided a significant starting point through which a computational approach to design has been pursued or have played a considerable role in shaping the field. An important aspect of this book is the manner in which adjacent fields and historical texts are connected. Both the source of original inspiration and scientific thought are presented alongside contemporary writings on the continually evolving computational design discourse. Emerging from the field of science, principally the subjects of morphogenesis, evolution and mathematics, selected texts provide a historical basis for a reconfigured mindset of processes that generate, arrange and describe form. Juxtaposed against more contemporary statements regarding the influence of computation on design thinking, the book offers advancements of fundamental texts to the particular purpose of establishing novel thought processes for architecture, theoretically and practically.

• The first reader to provide an effective framework for computational thinking in design.

• Includes classic texts by Johan W. von Goethe, D’Arcy Thompson, Ernst Mayr, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Gordan Pask, Christopher Alexander, John H. Holland, Nicholas Negroponte, William Mitchell, Peter J. Bentley & David W. Corne, Sanford Kwinter, John Frazer, Kostis Terzidis, Michael Weinstock and Achim Menges

• Features new writing by: Mark Burry, Jane Burry, Manuel DeLanda and Peter Trummer.

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8 Preface
 Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist  
10 Introduction
 
Computational Design Thinking
 Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges
 
30 Formation and Transformation
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
32 On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Related Forms
 D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
 
42 Variational Evolution
 Ernst Mayr
 
50 The Meaning of General System Theory
 Ludwig von Bertalanffy
 
58 Systems Generating Systems
 Christopher Alexander
 
68 The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
 Gordon Pask
 
78 Towards a Humanism Through Machines
 Nicholas Negroponte
 
86 A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design
 William J Mitchell
 
94 Algorithmic Form
 Kostas Terzidis
 
102 Architecture and Practical Design Computation
 Mark Burry
 
120 An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary Systems
 Peter J Bentley and David W Corne
 
131 Constrained Generating Procedures
 John H Holland
 
142 Real Virtuality
 Manuel DeLanda
 
149 A Natural Model for Architecture
 John Frazer
 
158 Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence
 Michael Weinstock
 
168 Philosophy of Mathematics for Computational Design: Spatial Intuition Versus Logic
 Jane Burry
 
179 Associative Design: From Type to Population
 Peter Trummer
 
198 Integral Formation and Materialisation: Computational Form and Material Gestalt
 Achim Menges
 
211 The Computational Fallacy
 Sanford Kwinter
 
216 Select Bibliography
 
218 Index

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